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Ellen
Rossier earned her Master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith
College in 1989. She worked with adolescents and families for
twelve years in hospital, residential and school settings, and has been
licensed in Colorado since 1994. In 1999, she began a private practice
specializing in women’s issues, pregnancy/post-partum adjustment,
parenting, and couple’s therapy. Ellen works with clients around a wide
range of concerns, always with an eye toward solutions that are of
lasting value in the whole of a person’s life. She has expertise
in the complicated area of addiction and the effects of addiction on a
partner or family member. Ellen brings to her work a love of people and
an optimistic belief in the possibility of change. Her clients
appreciate her direct style, her insightful comments and her sense of
humor. And since becoming a parent herself, she brings a whole
new compassion and respect for the difficult necessity of taking care
of oneself while meeting the needs of a family!
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Catie
McDowell has worked with adults, children and families for twenty
years, originally as a teacher and parent educator and more recently as
a psychotherapist. She received her Master’s degree in Clinical
Psychology at San Francisco State University in 1991 and has been
licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1993. Catie has
worked as a psychotherapist and consultant in a number of different
agencies and has been in private practice in Boulder since 1999.
She works with adults, adolescents and couples who are struggling with
depression, anxiety, relationship issues and major life changes. Catie
has a specialty in supporting women and couples through the emotional
ups and downs of pregnancy and early parenthood. She is
especially interested in creating a safe place for women to talk about
the realities of being a mother – both the awe and the ambivalence.
Catie is a parent of two young children herself, and has found humor
and chocolate to be necessities for survival.
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